My Alcohol stove with windscreen

[111t]

hey im gona make one but i have a few questions. do you put cotton inside? also, how do u put it out, just blow it out? or is it better to let it burn out.

No need for cotton. It does not blow out all that easy. I just let it run down.

The first one of these stoves that i made called for perlite inside to act as a wicking agent... like Woods Walker said, I'm not sure this is necessary. The stove worked fine though. Perlite is a lightweight, porus volcanic stone used with potted plants. It's sold in the form of tiny pebble sized bits. You could find it in the garden center at any good big box store.

[Squirrley]

I don't use any wick substance in my stoves. I also just blow them out, cause I don't have my fuel needs measured out (ex 10ccs of alcohol to boil one drinks worth of water or w/e), so I pour a lot in. Like sometimes around twice as much. So I blow it out and let the stove sit for ≈5 min and then try to pour the fuel back in my bottle. Usually doesn't work so hot, but oh well.

[Woods Walker]

hey im gona make one but i have a few questions. do you put cotton inside? also, how do u put it out, just blow it out? or is it better to let it burn out.

No need for cotton. It does not blow out all that easy. I just let it run down.

The first one of these stoves that i made called for perlite inside to act as a wicking agent... like Woods Walker said, I'm not sure this is necessary. The stove worked fine though. Perlite is a lightweight, porus volcanic stone used with potted plants. It's sold in the form of tiny pebble sized bits. You could find it in the garden center at any good big box store.

Perlite seems to be used more in pressurized stoves. I have used it in the past when making these types but moved over to the double walled stove as they are self priming. With the penny type stoves I needed to make a little dish for the fuel to preheat the stove or dump a little extra on the stove itself. Not a big deal however.

[Festus Hagen]

White fuel? Like white gas? Like Coleman fuel? If so... glad you managed to stay out of the burn unit

I made another one of these stoves but to specs. This time I used a thumb tack for my flame holes/ports. When I tried the white fuel and the jets caught hold I had flames almost two feet high, So please avoid white fuel unless you enlarge the holes like I did on my first attempt ( I used small brads). I am not sure what I did wrong but on the first unit I used brads for the port holes and had a 1/4 hole in the top center for filling purposes and after the flames caught I covered up with a quarter. This time my filler holes consisted of just six tack holes. maybe this increased the internal pressure? Guess playing around could have cost me. I will have to try the heet when I get the chance to find some locally. For now I am done with the white fuel!

[aa1pr]

White fuel? Like white gas? Like Coleman fuel? If so... glad you managed to stay out of the burn unit

I made another one of these stoves but to specs. This time I used a thumb tack for my flame holes/ports. When I tried the white fuel and the jets caught hold I had flames almost two feet high, So please avoid white fuel unless you enlarge the holes like I did on my first attempt ( I used small brads). I am not sure what I did wrong but on the first unit I used brads for the port holes and had a 1/4 hole in the top center for filling purposes and after the flames caught I covered up with a quarter. This time my filler holes consisted of just six tack holes. maybe this increased the internal pressure? Guess playing around could have cost me. I will have to try the heet when I get the chance to find some locally. For now I am done with the white fuel!

I know but it was all I had at the time and I wanted to experiment!
I know now that I possibly could have been the next Darwin candidate?